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Family Tree Cloche

Memorializing Collections – Janette Ewen’s DIY Steps

Article Posted on
05/15/2017

You will need:

1 large glass cloche with base

small tree branch (or wire coat hanger and raffia)

scrapbook items

drill and assorted drill bits

assorted screws

Instructions:

If you have a small tree branch that fits inside your cloche, simply drill a small hole in the center of the cloche base, and screw into the base of the branch from the bottom side. (Use a countersinking head screw so the base remains flat.)

If you don’t have a branch, it’s pretty easy to make one out of a wire coat hanger. Simply straighten the coat hanger, and then twist it around itself, making “branches” in different directions. Then wrap your “tree” in raffia. Start with a small loop as the base of your wire tree, and twist up from there. This loop will be used to screw the tree to center of the cloche base. (Use a “button” or “pan” head screw that it is not so long it will go all the way through the base.)